Native Americans

PSN curated source sets

Today in History

• Black Hawk War
• Captivity Narratives
• Chief John Ross & the Cherokee Nation
• Chief Joseph Surrenders
• Custer’s Last Stand
• Fort Necessity & the French and Indian War
• Indian Citizenship Act
• Jamestown
• Siege of Fort Meigs
• Jim Thorpe
• Western Missionaries & Native Americans
• Sarah Winnemucca

Primary Source Spotlight

• Indian Removal
• The Iroquois Confederacy
• Navajo
• The Nez Percé
• Paiute
• The Seminoles
• Sioux (Dakota) and Sitting Bull
• Wampanoag

More primary source sets

• Puritans and Native Americans in New England
• Fort Dearborn Massacre: Exchanging Victory for Exile
• Early Explorers or Colonizers: The French in Illinois
• Contemporary color photographs of Native Americans

Library collections & primary source sets

• Assimilation through Education primary source set with teacher guide
• Edward S. Curtis Collection
  • Clothing & dress image set
  • Subject listings
• Historical Monuments of the First Peoples story map
• Indian Affairs: American State Papers, 1789-1827
• Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1784-1894
• Indians: Travels in America, 1750-1920
• Indians: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910
• Indians: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925
• Indians: First-Person Narratives of California’s Early Years, 1849-1900
• Living Nations, Living Words story map featuring 47 contemporary Native Nations poets
• Omaha Indian Music
• Native American History and Culture: Finding Pictures
• Native American Images: Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
• Native American Spaces: Cartographic Resources at the Library of Congress
• Pictorial Americana: Western Life & Indian Fighting
• Native American Newspapers
• Topics in Chronicling America – Native American Education/Indian Schools timeline and select newspaper articles
• Topics in Chronicling America – Wounded Knee Massacre timeline and select newspaper articles

Veterans History Project

• Willing to Serve: American Indians

Legal Resources

• Native American Constitutions and Legal Materials (related blog post)
• Indigenous Law Web Archive
• Native American Law blog archived website 2010-07-07

Spotlights, Features & Special Presentations

• The Alaska Native Heritage Center
• Essays for the American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection
• First Peoples of California
• Living Nations Living Words project & educators guide
• Native Americans: Their Story
• Native Americans and the Vote
• The Native Peoples of Alaska

Teaching & learning resources

Library blog posts

Teaching with the Library of Congress

• Celebrating Native American Veterans with Oral Histories and Primary Sources November 10, 2016
• Edward S. Curtis and The North American Indian November 8, 2012
• Images of Native Americans: Exploring Changing Visual Representations October 22, 2015
• The Library of Congress and Native American Heritage Month October 17, 2017
• Native American Cultures Today: Primary Sources Documenting Music, Law, and Everyday Life November 24, 2014
• Native American Legal Struggles in Primary Sources November 4, 2014
• Native Americans in the First World War and the Fight for Citizenship April 5, 2018
• Primary Source Highlights for Native American Heritage Month October 24, 2013
• Sights and Sounds of the Omaha Indians: Documenting Native American Celebrations November 6, 2012

More posts from Library blogs

• American Indian Constitutions In Custodia Legis November 29, 2013
• American Indian and Alaskan Native Veterans Served Proudly Too Folklife Today November 24, 2014
• Celebrating Native American Cartography: The Catawba Deerskin Map Worlds Revealed November 30, 2016
• Celebrating Native American Heritage: Whispering Giants Library of Congress Blog November 7, 2014
• From Ella to Pocahontas In the Muse September 10, 2010
• Harvey Pratt: Dreaming of a National Native American Veterans Memorial Folklife Today November 9, 2020
• Music & Native American Heritage Month In the Muse November 27, 2013
• National American Indian Heritage Month In Custodia Legis November 2, 2012
• Native American Cultural Revitalization Today Folklife Today November 24, 2015
• Native American Heritage Month: Preserving Songs and Stories of the Past Library of Congress Blog November 28, 2017
• Pics of the Week: Sequoyah Inside Adams November 21, 2012
• Reflections on the Life of a Native American Marine Folklife Today November 10, 2015
• Remembering Vine Deloria, Jr. In Custodia Legis, November 14 2016
• Sequoyah: A Man of Letters Picture This November 15, 2013
• Sheet Music of the Week: American Indian Edition In the Muse June 2, 2011

Stories from America’s Library

• Meet Amazing Americans: Pocahontas
• Jump Back in Time to May 28, 1888: World class athlete Jim Thorpe was born
• Jump Back in Time to June 2, 1924: Congress granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S.
• Jump Back in Time to June 25, 1876: The Battle of Little Big Horn
• Jump Back in Time to August 9, 1814: How did Andrew Jackson earn the nickname Long Knife?
• Jump Back in Time to September 10, 1608: John Smith became a leader of Jamestown
• Jump Back in Time to October 3, 1790: Chief Little John and the Trail of Tears
• Jump Back in Time to October 5, 1877: Chief Joseph surrendered

Webcast videos

• Do All Indians Live in Tipis? and Other Compelling Questions for Education
• Navajo Code Talkers
• Dineh Tah Navajo Dancers Video
• Indian Yell, the Heart of American InsurgencyBreaking the Bonds of People and Land: Native American Removal in the United States and Mexico
• Indian Religious Freedom, to Litigate or Legislate?
• Black Mesa: Water, Power, and the Story of a Master Theft
• Author Luci Tapahonso Webcast
• Author & Spokesman Vine Deloria Jr. Webcast
• Native American Women Writers Discuss Sister Nations Webcast
• Storyteller Joseph Bruchac

Recommended links to resources outside the Library of Congress

• American Indian History and Culture: Encyclopedia Smithsonian
• American Indians of the Pacific Northwest University of Washington
• Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian
• Indians of North America: News and Current Events
• National Museum of the American Indian
• NativeWeb Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World
• Native American Authors
• Pictures of Native Americans in the United States from the National Archives
• United States Department of the Interior: Indian Affairs